In the jump ball with Artest, Adrian won with an advantage of half a hand over Artest. Although Artest's physical condition is also quite good, there is still a little difference between him and Adrian.
The gap, especially in terms of jumping ability.
The basketball was taken by Vujacic and then quickly passed to Adrian. After Adrian got the ball, he made a move towards the inside and immediately broke through to the right. Artest quickly followed up, but failed to guard against a wall like a city wall.
His tall figure was perfectly positioned to follow him.
Pick-and-roll, pick-and-roll again, just like the cooperation in the playoffs last season, Odom's well-timed pick-and-roll once again created sufficient shooting space for Adrian. This time Adrian did not wait for Odom to make a smooth move as usual.
He shot down, or went inside to create open opportunities for others. He chose to take a mid-range shot himself!
Maybe because he had been on the bench for a long time, Adrian's touch became a little cold, and the basketball hit the front of the basket and bounced outward. As soon as he saw the rebound, Carl Landry immediately looked like a big bird.
He usually soars into the sky, opens his hands and pounces towards the backboard.
In the past, Adrian would not have chosen to shoot from the mid-range so easily, even if there was such a good shooting space. At that time, Adrian preferred to create opportunities for his teammates, and he would often make a difference between scoring and assisting.
Choose to assist. Unless his teammates' touch is poor to a certain extent, and his touch is so hot that he can put the basketball into the frame with his eyes closed, he will not hesitate to choose to take the shot himself.
But now, the situation is different. After discovering the opportunity, Adrian will no longer choose to create opportunities for his teammates. Instead, he will immediately use such opportunities to score. Between scoring and assists, his balance has been silent.
Wuxi was biased towards scoring. The impact that caused such a result was a series of factors. It was by no means just one thing, but something had happened, and Adrian had truly changed.
Although the result of his first shot was a loss, Adrian's confidence was not affected at all. For the next ball, he switched to the low post to catch the ball. After pushing inward twice, he still chose to turn over and jump shot without hesitation.
Artest took off and tried to block the shot. Instead of covering the basketball, his big black hands looked more like slapping Adrian in the face. This can also be regarded as one of Artest's defensive methods, intimidating defense.
.If the offensive players can be made to feel fear and cannot help but retreat, then the defense will be 80% successful.
But this time he failed. Adrian suddenly put away the basketball in his hand in the air and sent the basketball out from Artest's armpit. Sasha Wu had just slipped into the basket from the other baseline.
Jasic successfully caught the basketball, turned over neatly for a layup, and sent the basketball into the hoop.
Assist, Adrian's first assist of the new season. If preseason games are included, this is Adrian's first assist in eight games.
"Distributing the ball is the core job. Do you think so?" Seeing Adrian's performance on the court that was completely different from the first two quarters, Phil Jackson couldn't help but rub his chin and think seriously.
Get up. Before this, he had never studied Adrian's thoughts seriously and deeply. Because Adrian was so reassuring, he was mature, calm and humble, and seemed to have no flaws in his personal character.
However, after careful guessing and careful observation, Phil Jackson immediately recognized that the actual Adrian was completely different from him, no, from the Adrian that everyone had always known.
‘Only’? No, it should be called ‘only’.
Is this the truth about Adrian's character?
"Only when you are the one who dominates the ball, you will think about how to distribute the ball. Otherwise, you will only think about how to get more ball rights." After making such an assertion in his mind, Phil -
Jackson suddenly felt that Adrian's character was too weird.
The reason why Phil Jackson thinks so is largely because he doesn't understand Adrian and the NBA era twenty years later when the excellent point guard is everything to the team. In that era, the point guard was everything.
Mastering the ball, controlling the rhythm, and distributing the ball are the core of the team, the core of tactics, the first executor of tactics, and the coach on the field. Even the point guard is also the head coach. All of this is a matter of course.
It was an era when excellent point guards emerged in endlessly like crucian carp crossing the river. It was an era when point guards were the brains and other players were just hands and feet to execute orders. It was a ball-control tactical theory.
In the era of rapid development and gradually dominating the NBA, although there are some "retrofitters" such as point forwards, they are not the mainstream after all.
Adrian has experienced that era and was deeply influenced by that era. When he has the maximum possession of the ball, he will naturally regard himself as a point guard of that era and regard tactical rotation as his first priority.
, regardless of other statistics. In this case, even if the core of the Lakers is Kobe, Adrian can't help but regard himself as the most important one in his heart. He is the point guard and controls the ball.
, distribution of ball rights should of course be the core.
This conflict between idea and reality was not realized by Adrian at first. What made him realize this was Jordan's training.
It's not that Jordan's training is so brilliant, but that Jordan made him realize that the current NBA is still an era where scoring is higher than assists, and offense is higher than organization. This is still an era where scorers are king.
Adrian has no intention of changing the world, and he doesn't think he can bring the point guard era to an early stage. After all, if a large number of outstanding point guards hadn't emerged all over the world at the same time, each of the 32 NBA teams at that time would have former All-Stars.
A level of outstanding point guard, averaging more than 10 assists per game became the first criterion for evaluating whether a point guard is qualified to become a starter. This led to the point guards of that era becoming more and more versatile, leading to the madness of ball possession tactics.
As a result, the ball rights were almost completely monopolized by the point guard, causing the so-called individual singles to almost become a heresy, and it was impossible for the point guard era to come.
Since you are unable to change the world, then try to adapt to the world. Since the NBA in this era still has the top scorer, then Adrian does not mind scoring like crazy. (To be continued...)
